| Vendor | Adobe Inc. | Portfolio DAM, LLC (Axle AI) |
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| HQ | USA (San Jose, California) | USA (Woburn, MA) |
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| Founded | 1982 | 2026 |
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| Ownership | public (NASDAQ: ADBE) | subsidiary of Axle AI, Inc. (acquired from Extensis/Monotype, 2026-03-09) |
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| Target market | Enterprise | SMB to enterprise workgroups (on-premise, archives, creative and print teams) |
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| Deployment | SaaS, Private cloud, On-premise | On-premise, Private cloud |
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| Pricing model | quote-only; packages Assets Prime / Assets Ultimate with user types (Limited, Collaborator, Power, Admin); Dynamic Media Prime/Ultimate add-ons (DM billed on aggregated page views/visits) | subscription by seats, asset limit and add-on modules; quote-based |
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| SSO | SAML | LDAP, kerberos |
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| Certifications | HIPAA-ready, CMMC L2 | None published |
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| Analyst coverage | Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2025: Leader · Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2026: Leader | Not public |
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| API style (overview) | REST | REST, SOAP |
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| OpenAPI spec | Partial | Yes |
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| Webhooks (overview) | YesAdobe I/O Events; AEM as a Cloud Service only | No |
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| Official MCP server | YesAEM MCP Server, https://mcp.adobeaemcloud.com/adobe/mcp/aem | No |
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| API base URL | https://author-p{program}-e{env}.adobeaemcloud.com/adobe/assets | http(s)://{server}:8090/api/v1 (HTTPS on 9443); self-hosted |
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| API styles | REST | REST, SOAP |
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| Authentication | OAuth 2.0 client credentials, OAuth 2.0 authorization code, OAuth 2.0 PKCE, JWT | session, API key |
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| Token lifetime | ~24 h (IMS access token, expires_in; refresh rules for user flows Unknown) | Session expires on inactivity (duration Not public); API Token never times out |
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| Rate limit | Not public (429 + exponential backoff; thresholds via support ticket) | Not public (self-hosted server; no documented throttle) |
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| Pagination | cursor (limit 1-50 + opaque cursor) | offset (startingIndex + pageSize, default 1,000) |
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| Webhooks (API) | Adobe I/O Events: webhook (RSA-SHA256 signed), journal, EventBridge | none; server-side JavaScript event scripts (no longer actively supported) |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.3 (6 archived spec files, 2026.07) | OpenAPI 3.0.1 (63 paths / 73 operations, 2018) + deprecated SOAP WSDL |
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| Official SDKs | No generated SDK; Node.js upload/events libs and Java AEM SDK (official) | none current; legacy SOAP sample clients (Java, C#, PHP) |
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